At 8:57 PM -0400 7/10/00, David Marshall wrote: >Sparklist.com, which you feed, is currently executing a denial of >service attack against several addresses associated with the >Cypherpunks mailing list. As of now, Sparklist.com's blatent abuse has >resulted in distribution of several thousand messages of the format >below. Sparklist.com itself has sent a fraction of these; however they >are spamming mailing lists, which has resulted in each message going >out to several thousand people. > >Such denial of service attacks violate United States Federal law, laws >in various states, and your terms of service. Sparklist.com needs to >have its network feed yanked until such a time as they get a clue. Nope, Sparklist is no more "executing a denial of service attack" than the Cypherpunks lists are executing a DOS attack when someone happens to subscribe a mailing list to the Cypherpunks list. In short, Sparklist is just a mail reflector, like the Cypherpunks list. The problem comes from one list being subscribed to the output of another list. And that is not a violation of any law. Nor should it be. Blustering about "United States Federal law" is wrong-headed for several reasons. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
